Treatment of Prostate Cancer

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Provided by Alta Bates Summit Medical Center located in Oakland and Berkeley, California in the East Bay Area. When we are discussing carcinoma of the prostate, if the prostate tumor is what we call low risk, that is a low Gleason score, a low PSA, and a low stage the patient may be a candidate for any number of treatments options including radical surgery, external beam radiation, permanent seed implant, or high dose rate Brachytherapy. Unlike external beam radiation, where the treatment comes from the outside in, with high dose rate brachytherapy the treatment is from the inside out. And we do that by inserting hollow, thin surgical plastic catheters into the prostate gland through the skin of the bottom. And a sealed radiation source is afterloaded into the hallow catheter. So the prostate tumor is radiated from the inside out in as opposed to the outside in as with external beam radiation. It takes about an hour to do the procedure. Then the patient goes to the recovery room and then after that we bring the patient up to our department and do a CT scan which will show us that array of catheters and the surrounding normal anatomy, the bladder, the rectum and urethra which runs directly through the middle of the target. Using that information we come up with a treatment plan to optimize the dose to that specific anatomy. Once the calculations are complete the patient is moved to a treatment room and attached to a treatment machine called an afterloader which is a …

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Over 200,000 times a year a patient will leave his urologist’s office having been told he has prostate cancer. What the patient thought to be a disease of old men from which they do not die, now presents a very complicated and frustrating dilemma about what treatment to pursue. The newly diagnosed prostate cancer patient does not need a definitive text book on prostate cancer; rather, he needs to know what is pertinent and specific to him in making a decision on how to treat it. The Decision offers the reader an insider’s view to the key issues necessary for a well thought out treatment plan that is unique to him. Drawing upon his experience in treating prostate cancer for over twenty years, as well as having been through the decision making and treatment process as patient himself uniquely qualifies Dr. McHugh as a mentor to the reader. His book outlines a novel and multi-faceted approach to aid the newly diagnosed prostate cancer patient in making his “Decision.”Product Description
Over 200,000 times a year a patient will leave his urologist’s office having been told he has prostate cancer. What the patient thought to be a disease of old men from which they do not die, now presents a very complicated and frustrating dilemma about what treatment to pursue. The newly diagnosed prostate cancer patient does not need a definitive text book on prostate cancer; rather, he needs to know what is pertinent and specific to him in making a decision on how to treat it. The Decision offers the reader an insider’s view to the key issues necessary for a well thought out treatment plan that is unique to him. Drawing upon his experience in treating prostate cancer for over twenty years, as well as having been through the decision making and treatment process as patient himself uniquely qualifies Dr. McHugh as a mentor to the reader. His book outlines a novel and multi-faceted approach to aid the newly diagnosed prostate cancer patient in making his “Decision.”

The Decision: Your prostate biopsy shows cancer. Now what? Medical insight, personal stories, and humor by a urologist who has been where you are now.

The patient is 93 years old. The doctor has declined to do another colonoscopy but did an endoscopy and whole body bone scan which came back negative. I’m frustrated because she is my mother and they seem to think her case is hopeless.

Discussion of suffering after cryotherapy for treatment of prostate cancer

Patient testimonial on treatment of Prostate Cancer at the CyberKnife Centers of San Diego, Southern California’s leaders in CyberKnife treatment. Visit us at www.sdcyberknife.com

A cyberknife patient education video from US Radiosurgery.